In 2003, Lebanon-born Fouad Ajami, listed as an ‘Author’ in Israel Hasbara Committee – wrote in Foreign Affairs that America’s unilateral war on Iraq will bring modernization to the Middle Eastern countries and thus, security to Israel. After seven years, the reality on ground shows that he lied from both sides of his mouth – an so did Dubya Bush who proclaimed “Mission Accomplished” on board USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003. At that time, Bush also claimed that Saddam Hussein had links with Al-Qaeda and that he was behind 9/11. None of which has been proved so far.
Now, after seven year, another US President, Ben Obama, had lied by asserting that he is pulling 50,000 ‘combatant soldiers’ out of Iraq, while keeping the remaining 50,000 ‘non-combatant soldiers’ to stay put in Iraq to carry-on Fouad Ajami’s prediction – the security of Israel.
The loser in this war (like wars in Afghanistan and Lebanon) is mainly the Iraqis and the Americans. Let us count some of the losses during the last seven years of Iraqi adventure for Israel.
1. More than 6,000 American killed and over 100,000 wounded. Iraq has lost over one million people since the Washington’s wars begining in the 1990s.
2. Iraq war has already cost to taxpayers over US$745 billion and expected to reach one trillion dollars soon.
3. America has lost its credibility within the Middle East countries. This was told to Benji Netanyahu last year by both Mullen and Joe Biden. The vacuum has been filled by Iran, Turkey and Syria. Ahmadinejad, Sheikh Nasrallah and Erdogan have become the most popular Muslim leaders among the Arabs.
Israel in the meantime has attacked Lebanon, Gaza and Turkish vessels – but fears more for its survival than post-Iraq War. Now, it’s pushing Ben Obama to start new wars in Lebanon, Syria, Pakistan and Iran for Israel’s survival.
Let us not forget, the ‘Israel-First’ Jew in Pentagon, Paul Wolfowitz, who told Dubya Bush that “Iraq War will pay for itself”. John Bolton, the ‘half-Jewish’ neocon repeated the same line in 2006. According to Brain Hicks, author of ‘Profit from the Peak’ revealed in 2008 that US forces in Iraq are costing US$923 million per week on fuel consumption alone.
Lately, many of the neocons (mostly Jewish) are blaming the Islamic Republic for the Washington’s failure in Iraq. Israeli poodle,General Petraeus told ‘Israel-Firster’ Senator Joe Leiberman during a Senate testimony on April 8-9, 2008 that Iran is behind the murder of hundreds of US soldiers and NOT Israelis in Iraq.
Just imagine what it would cost American taxpayers if their leaders decide to repeat their mistakes in October 2001 and March 2003 in Islamic Iran to please the Israel Lobby.
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